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Sorry, Yost, but I'm siding with the BTN on this one. Every single provider in Big Ten country carries the BTN except for the four mega cable conglomerates: Charter, Comcast, Mediacom and Time Warner. Hell, if Dish Network can carry it, and RCN and WOW can carry it, then why not Comcast?

Thanks for posting this guys. Bob Popowski was my room mate at Michigan for 4 years. He is truly a great M man. Any and all help is appreciated. He is facing a very difficult future if you know anything about Huntington's Disease.

Before making the brilliant decision to sign a 20-year contract to broadcast "our" games on the BTN, you would think Martin would have had ALL of the cable providers on board. . . long in advance of the season.

What a dumbass! He may sound like a corporate slob, but he's definitely not acting like one. I'd be interested in knowing what the ad revenue looks like for this stupid network compared to what ESPNU would have paid.

I have DirecTV, so I get the BTN. I think you would appreciate it a lot more if you lived here in SEC/ACC country and got to see your team of choice live and in highlights more often. I think the real benefit may come during basketball season. More games and no blackouts. Of course, you guys haven't looked forward to basketball season in quite some time;^)

It is only a matter of time before the rest of the conferences have their own networks too.

Mikoyan,just curious, what's the origin of you screen name? The reason i'm asking, is that "Mikoyan" was the name of the famous fighter jet constructor that the world renowned MIG's were named after. A co-incidence?

Some days I just want the cable companies to sign the goddamn deal so that I don't have to keep watching in bars. Other days, I'm so disgusted with the BTN that I root for its collapse and bankruptcy, and hope that everyone affiliated with it is prosecuted.

to weigh in on the BTN debate -- I agree with crabapple - I live in Jersey (ugh!) and have been able to watch more Michigan football this year than in the past 3 years combined (mind you, we were stationed in Japan for 2 years.) I also feel like I know so much more about other Big 10 teams, since they all they cover.

I will give you that the BTN coverage is much like watching AFN sports or your local small town high school sports.

We live in one of the corners of columbus served by insight, so we get btn. It's pretty good. You can see all the coaches shows (or high lights), replays of games (unfortunately, they played 2006 tosu-mich & app st-mich over & over thfirst week).

The non football programs are neat IF you are into a niche sport.

As foir the business end & the comcast-btn fight, this was going to happen eventually in some fashion. Comcast is in the process of developing its own SECOND ntework that they'll own. Just like espn/abc vs cbs vs ndbc, there's a fight over who makes the most money and we're paying for it.

My screen name is in fact based on the same Mikoyan plane designer. Back in the early days of the Internet, I used to putz around on a program called IRC. I like planes but it seemed that most of the cool names were taken, so I decided to go for unique and I ended up keeping the name.

Mikoyan,i can understand you being partial to American planes. Back home, my grandparents lived 10 minutes away from a military airport, and my dad had some friends that were research aero/aviation engineers over at the "research institution" attached to the airport. It's the same place where they now hold an international "Air-Show" (Moscow Aero Space Show) every year. Last time i was back there i went and checked it out again. Growing up in a place like that you can't help but be an "aviation nut" :-)

One of these days I would like to go to Moscow. I heard they have a place where they have a bunch of MiGs on display. I have a pretty good collection of model MiGs, starting with a MiG-3 and going all the way to a MiG-31.

The air show that i was talking about happens every other August in Zhukovsky (it's a Moscow suburb). They just had one this past year (so next one would be in'09). Not only do they display every aircraft produced in USSR/Russia, they also display space and aero equipment of every sort. It's really neat.

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